San Diego Union Tribune

● By Eddie Brown
My evaluation process is about 90 percent complete heading into the NFL Scouting Combine. I’ve been watching these players since high school for the most part. What I’ve seen on the field makes up the bulk of my analysis, but the draft process usually illuminates some useful pearls of wisdom. So it’s probably a good time to update the ol’ big board. Part of my weekly mock draft preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe they should do.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 100 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up on this big board.